Brooke Miller (cyclist)
# Brooke Miller (cyclist)

Brooke Miller (born March 21, 1976) is an American former professional road racing cyclist and U.S. national team member. In 2008, she won both the women's criterium and road race national championships.

## Biography

Brooke Miller was born in Huntington Beach, California. She did not start to cycle until she was in graduate school, having been an elite volleyball player at the University of California at Berkeley. It was not until Miller was invited to attend the USA Cycling Women’s Talent ID camp in 2005, that she learned that women peak older than men, and she then started to take cycling seriously.

Miller became a member of the US National Team in 2007, and competed in Europe, coming second in the first stage and winning the third stage of the Tour de l'Ardèche in France. She also came third in the third stage of the Holland Ladies Tour in Denekamp.

She graduated with a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in spring 2007, and began racing full-time in 2008, although she does work as a software developer in her spare time.

Following her successful racing season in 2007, Miller continued to ride for Team TIBCO in 2008, and is also the team's Marketing Director, managing "sponsor relations and strategic development, establishing and strengthening growth-oriented industry partnerships."

She is the 2008 United States National Road Race and Criterium Champion. Miller won the first women's criterium to be held alongside the men's Tour of California, the race was sponsored by the Redwood Regional Breast Center. She also competed in the Tour de l'Aude and the Tour of New Zealand.

Miller's ultimate goal was an Olympic gold medal, she had dreamed of this since she was a child. She began chasing her dream in volleyball before switching to cycling. However, she retired from the sport in August 2010 following the Chris Thater Memorial Classic, the official end of the women's NRC calendar. Miller cited difficulty living away from home in Europe and not wanting to make the sacrifices necessary to secure her spot on the 2012 Olympic team as the main reasons behind her retirement.

## Major results

### 2006

    1st Stage 2, Nature Valley Grand Prix, Cannon Falls
    1st Stage 5, Tour de Toona, Martinsburg

### 2007

    1st Martinez
    1st Santa Clarita
    2nd Stage 1, Central Valley Classic
    2nd Indio Grand Prix
    1st Stage 2, Nature Valley Grand Prix, Cannon Falls
    3rd Stage 4, Nature Valley Grand Prix, Minneapolis
    3rd Stage 6, Holland Ladies Tour, Denekamp (NED)
    2nd Stage 1, Tour de l'Ardèche (FRA)
    1st Stage 3, Tour de l'Ardèche, Cruas (FRA)

### 2008

    1st United States National Road Race Championships
    1st United States National Criterium Championships
    1st Tour of California Women's Criterium, Santa Rosa
    2nd Central Valley Classic, Fresno
    2nd Stage 5, Le Tour du Grand Montréal, Mont-Saint-Hilaire (CAN)
    2nd Liberty Classic
    3rd Stage 1, Nature Valley Grand Prix, St. Paul Lowertown
    1st Stage 4, Nature Valley Grand Prix, Minneapolis
    1st Manhattan Beach GP
    1st Davis
    3rd Stage 2, Cascade Classic, Three Creeks Snow Park
    1st Stage 4, Cascade Classic, Oregon
    3rd Chicago
    2nd Bank of America Invitational
    1st Hanes Park Classic

### 2010

    1st Clarendon Cup
